Not sure who was making this one? Thanks to Goddess for doing the last couple.
Mattress salespeople are absolutely insane.
Kept feeling like I was a hot chip surrounded by seagulls.
I’m amazed we made it out of Nunawading alive
We’re really just dipping our toes in the water to see what we like.
If they’d been a bit more chill we would have stuck around and bought something.
But each area felt too staked out. We had 6 different salespeople try to get us at Snooze.
Massive turnoff. Just wanted to get out.
Ick. That’s a large part of why I ended up with a mattress-in-a-box instead, I really didn’t want to deal with all that. And I’ve been pretty happy with it - plus they are sending me a new mattress topper which the Koala matresess all come with now (but didn’t when I bought mine) so it might even get better when that arrives!
You should have laid down on the mattress and when they ask “Can I help you with anything?” you reply “A cup of tea would be great thanks”.
I blacklisted a store, the mattress sales people were so weird and pushy.
Good morning, DT!! bindlesspins present and accounted for. What’s on for the day?!
Just had a good sauna session.
I should study today and finish my assignments. we’ll see…
Oooh, sauna.
One of the things I want to get for the new place if I possibly can is one of those infrared saunas.
Ooh sauna! I’m trying to use the sauna at my gym more and more. It feels good but I get antsy very quickly. Probably should take my headphones in.
Only take your headphones in if it’s infra red. The dry sauna will absolutely cook your headphones.
Takes a bit of getting used to with building up how long you can stay in it. The one I use is super intense. About 80-90 degrees.
I can handle half an hour normally but if they keep splashing the rocks I start fading around the 20 minute mark 🥵
Cats are hounding me while I try and do the housework. Its cute but the kitten plays with everything but his toys when he wants me to play. Vaccuum scares the shit out of them, so that’s my hack. They’ll leave me alone if I leave it running while doing other chores. Already done an aa meeting. Have loads of laundry to put away, dishes to do… domestic stuff. later go for a walk. My body is kinda fucked up and I now walk with a limp for some reason.
I’ll attempt (half heartedly) to do some housework I didn’t do yesterday. The mini peelers need their school uniforms washed so that’s first cab off the rank. Then I’ll produce some kind of chicken dish, maybe my ginger plum sauce chicken.
Just puttering today rather than initial plan of walking to the main strip and checking out the little market - feel like I’ve worn myself out the last few days doing the gottas on top of trying to get out more per doctors’ suggestions.
Really want to tackle clearing Mum’s room as part of Operation Sort Shit - I pulled everything around trying to clear a specific area and now it looks like a total mess.
@Goddess_Amaterasu@aussie.zone is the Fiji water photo at sunrise today.
Now I’m in Suva after having spent the week on an island paradise but still a few more days before flying back to cold Melbourne.
Oh the pic is gorgeous. I’ve heard of Suva. (Never been) thank you for posting the photo. Have an amazing rest of your trip. Drink up that warm weather as you’ll be sad when you get back. We have a whole top of 11C tomorrow 😢
Also thank you for adding the little description, helps for any vision impaired people
This modern trend of inaudible dialogue in film and TV is irritating.
Oh, but don’t worry! As soon as action starts, it’ll blow your eardrums out :)
Me too, although I hate it when the subtitles spoil the punchline of a joke.
Same. Too bad the option isn’t available in cinemas. They should have sessions where the movie has subtitles throughout the whole movie
I have solutions for this depending on which device I’m using.
If I’m watching my TV, my soundbar has a Voice button which has 3 levels which it will boost the center channel to help with it, or I can connect my bluetooth headphones and they handle it better.
If I’m watching on my PC, I use some free software called FxSound which is an equalizer for Windows. Even just installing it and using the General profile is a noticeable improvement over the default balances but it also has sound profiles for Movies, TV, Transcription, Music, Voice, Volume Boost, Gaming, Classic Processing, Light Processing, Bass Boost and Streaming Video. I recommend installing FxSound for all Windows users, I have it on all of my computers.
If for some reason I’m using my phone, or using my phone to Bluetooth to my headphones or to my car stereo I use an equalizer on that (Android) called REEQ which has preset profiles or you can make custom ones. That app has definitely increased the quality of the audio from and streamed from my phone.
I have drafted a no doxxing clause to add to the community guidelines https://aussie.zone/comment/173580
I feel like turning rules-based ideas like “don’t dox people” into positive values-based statements is a very healthy experience. I need to do this in more areas of my life 🙂
